Puma L.I.F.T.
Firstborn, New York, New York, 2009
Description
Firstborn teamed up with Droga5 to create a whimsical and sometimes scandalous experience that demonstrates a very important quality of Puma’s latest athletic shoe: lightness.
The site opens by introducing users to the Puma L.I.F.T. (Lite Injected Foam Technology) through a 3-D reenactment suggesting how the foam base of the shoe is formed—a process never actually seen by a human. Once the shoe falls through the air and finds its home on a fulcrum, users can control their hosts—the girl and the guy—by having them show off the shoe or weigh it against a variety of unusual and sometimes awkward objects. Once all the items are weighed for each model, a very special bonus round reveals itself.
Want to see how the Puma L.I.F.T. stacks up against condoms? A cactus? A jazz flute? Check out the site and find out!
Juror Notes
Puma L.I.F.T. uses a good sense of humor, a wink and a nod toward emerging augmented-reality-spatial-tagging user-interface practices.
Credits
- Design firm
- Firstborn
- Creative directors
- Joon Park, Kevin Brady, David Droga, Duncan Marshall, Ted Royer, Scott Witt (Droga5)
- Art directors
- Hannah Lee, Brennan Boblett, Kenny Kim (Droga5)
- Designer
- Eric Eng (lead 3-D designer/animation)
- Production coordinator
- Sally-Ann Dale (Droga5)
- Directors
- Juan Delcan (Nola Pictures), Dan LaCivita (executive director)
- Producers
- Thomas Beug (producer, broadcast, Droga5), Melissa Jarosz (senior producer), Andrew Jerez (3-D modeling), Michael Kuzmich (animation/video post-production), Sandra Nam (executive producer, digital, Droga5), David Ross (producer, digital, Droga5), Will Russell (studio producer)
- Developer
- Jens Fischer
- Client
- Puma for Droga5